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Mikhail Gorbachev
Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev (Russian: Михаи́л Серге́евич Горбачёв; 2 March 1931 - 30 August 2022) was a Russian and former Soviet politician. The eighth and last leader of the Soviet Union, he was the general secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1985 until 1991. He was also the country's head of state from 1988 until 1991, serving as the chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet from 1988 to 1989, chairman of the Supreme Soviet from 1989 to 1990, and president of the Soviet Union from 1990 to 1991. Ideologically, he initially adhered to Marxism–Leninism although by the early 1990s had moved toward social democracy.
As actor
AUM: The Cult at the End of the World
JFK Assassination: A New Perspective
Gorbacheva
In the Grip of Gazprom
The Man Who Challenged Putin
Chernobyl: The Lost Tapes
Moscow 1996, Vote or Lose!
The Art of Dissent
Stasi: A State Against Its People
Gorbachev. Heaven
Sakharov. Two Lives
Chernobyl: The Last Battle of the USSR
The Long Breakup
Frenemies: Putin and Trump
Stalin and the Katyn Massacre
My Favorite War
The Way I See It
30 Years of Democracy
Meeting Gorbachev
Tiananmen: The People Versus the Party
The Man Who Defied Beijing
Solidarność: How Solidarity Changed Europe
Bully. Coward. Victim. The Story of Roy Cohn
Lusia in Wonderland
Putin's Witnesses
Our Africa
À la recherche de... Pierre Richard
Free to Rock
Oscar Arias: Without a Shot Fired
The Arrow of Time